Time rules life, and body clock medicine is back. New research is reviving interest in body clock health and performance, letting a public habituated to a “time free”24/7 lifestyle recognize their internal time can no more be ignored than their heart, muscle and brain. Diet and cancer are two prominent areas for body clock research. But will […]

Reinventing Breakfast A patient asked me “I only eat one meal a day, a kind of late breakfast. Is that bad?” “No,” I replied. He’s a physically healthy man. Though pretty lean, he worries about his weight. I explained that in Army experiments where biddable privates were given only a single, 2000 calorie meal each day, […]

The Weight on America Americans are obsessed with weight. We read about it, think about it, twitter about it. We even pay billions to lose it. As I’ve argued before, weight is not the enemy. An impoverished, narrow view of health is the real culprit. Medicine looks to “fix” the “homeostatic” human machine rather than […]